Frankfurter Bachkonzerte e.V.

Angela Hewitt knows every line of music that Bach wrote for the "Clavier" and has played everything from BWV 772 to 1006 in concert, preludes and fugues, sonatas, toccatas, partitas and suites. People all over the world want to hear her - preferably exclusively with Bach. She was the first to record the complete piano works of Maurice Ravel - to the highest praise - and has just recorded her cycle of the complete Mozart sonatas on CD. And she remains curious - her program for the Frankfurt Bach Concerts traces the history of prelude and fugue through the centuries and does not shy away from the almost unplayable monster fugue by Samuel Barber.

The Viennese Classical period had nothing to do with the theme of "prelude and fugue", so you have to wait until Mendelssohn, who wrote a rapturous prelude and a mighty fugue, or with a great leap in time to Shostakovich, who in 1951, in the style of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier", wrote 24 preludes and fugues himself and from them the romantic, iridescent No. 18 in F minor. Welcome to a fascinating journey through time with Angela Hewit

Photo: Keith Saunders

12.10., 8 pm (concert introduction with Christian Kabitz at 7:15 pm)

Alte Oper (Mozart Hall), Opernplatz 1, Frankfurt

2for1: Price category 1 = 59 €, price category 2 = 49 €, price category 3 = 39 €, price category 4 = 29 €, subject to availability (tickets are only valid subject to availability! After booking here at CITY CARD, please collect your tickets as early as possible from the Alte Oper Frankfurt box office from 8.10.)

8-11.10., advance booking Alte Oper, Mon-Fri 10am-6.30pm, Sat 10am-1pm